The Young Ladies' Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises and Articulation, Pauses, Inflections, and Emphasis: Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry |
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... leave , but wean ourselves from them , while we are in the midst of them . To hear a judicious and elegant discourse from the pulpit , which would in print make a noble figure , murdered by him who had learn- ing and taste to compose it ...
... leave , but wean ourselves from them , while we are in the midst of them . To hear a judicious and elegant discourse from the pulpit , which would in print make a noble figure , murdered by him who had learn- ing and taste to compose it ...
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... leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded ; when kind and caressing looks of every object without , that can flatter his senses , have conspired with the enemy within , to betray him and put him off his defence ...
... leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded ; when kind and caressing looks of every object without , that can flatter his senses , have conspired with the enemy within , to betray him and put him off his defence ...
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... Leave not a rack behind . RULE XIV . A parenthesis must always be pronounced dif- ferently from its relative sentence , and generally in a quicker and lower tone . It generally ends with the same inflection as that which next precedes ...
... Leave not a rack behind . RULE XIV . A parenthesis must always be pronounced dif- ferently from its relative sentence , and generally in a quicker and lower tone . It generally ends with the same inflection as that which next precedes ...
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... Leave not a rack behind . " Antithesis is a figure of arrangement , and is designed to heighten our conceptions of a subject by placing things in strong contrast with each other . " The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is ...
... Leave not a rack behind . " Antithesis is a figure of arrangement , and is designed to heighten our conceptions of a subject by placing things in strong contrast with each other . " The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is ...
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... ! do not die And leave us all alone . " " My blessed babes ! " she tried to say , But the faint accents died away In a low , sobbing moan . 42577A And then , life struggling hard with death , And YOUNG LADIES ' READER . 99.
... ! do not die And leave us all alone . " " My blessed babes ! " she tried to say , But the faint accents died away In a low , sobbing moan . 42577A And then , life struggling hard with death , And YOUNG LADIES ' READER . 99.
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Page 58 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 66 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 242 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!
Page 44 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 61 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 60 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 33 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 62 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly : these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within which passeth show ; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 38 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 330 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.